Health Affairs for the Latest Health Policy Research

It’s always good to include sources in your paper beyond the usual legal treatises and law review articles. If you’re writing on a health law topic, one place to find current scholarly information on health policy generally is Health Affairs, a publication of Academy Health. Health Affairs is available electronically, but only in the law library or law school.

An easy way to use Health Affairs is to browse its A-Z health policy topics, that includes many law and health areas such as:

  • Medicaid & Medicare
  • Affordable Care Act
  • health care finance
  • social determinates of health
  • the opioid crisis
  • rural health care
  • telehealth
  • abortion law

You can also listen to podcasts and read health policy briefs on a wide range of topics.